https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48290
--- Comment #1 from James Forrester <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #0) > Single newlines have no effect on the way a wiki page is displayed. > So they should be ignored in a WYSIWYG editor. > > Example: Third line at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > Content_Management_Interoperability_Services#Specification_progress_. > 26_TC_members Yeah, this is a bit of a mess. In wikitext (except in some circumstances like <pre>s), \n is a whitespace character, rendered as either a space or as nothing depending on the things around it, but \n\n is "</p><p>". We could: * Silently strip non-conformant wikitext syntax like this on ingest, but this would mean that VisualEditor would not play well with other, wikitext-based users. * Show the newline as a line break in VisualEditor - in a way that (a) doesn't look like a new paragraph/context has started, and (b) doesn't look like <br />s will look, either, and in some way conveys the fact that it's different. * (Current behaviour) Show the newline as a special kind of character in VisualEditor - in a way that (a) doesn't look like a 'real' new line, because it isn't. * Silently not show the new line as such (but instead as… a space?), which is prone to having users accidentally alter them without intention, again causing problems for intermixed VisualEditor and wikitext editor sessions. What are your thoughts? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
